Soil activity
Look at environment. Note surroundings (wet, dry, vegetation?, what kind of veg? )
Core as far as you can go without going past top line in core shaft
Use spatula to carefully extract soil from corer onto cookie sheet, pvc, etc. Be careful to retain
stratigraphy.
Repeat coring/extraction process until you can no longer core (too deep, obstruction), or until you
collect a sufficient amount of soil
Look at soil and note where major differences in color, vegetation, texture, structure occur
Measure each section (top of core is 0 inches). E.g. first section is 0-2 inches, 2nd section is 2-6 inches,
etc.
Describe soil: Use texture flow chart to do a ribbon test. Use crayon sheet to determine color(s) List
other characteristics: presence of organic material, notable structure, mottling (splotches of different
colors), dry or wet soil.